A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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